Run playbook periodically

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we want to do backup using ansible and we want it to run periodically. I think its possible using os crontab to running playbook, but we want to have more neatly solution Is there any feature in ansible to do this? Thanks.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 16 '18 at 18:58

The tags on your question suggest a solution: Tower (or AWX) have scheduled jobs. Just Ansible Engine doesn't have a scheduler, so either that or your choice of third-party scheduler.

Running a backup does not really change the configuration state of a system. An alternate pattern is to write and maintain a backup script in your playbook. Deploy that with Ansible to the node that runs backups.

Run playbook periodically

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